HALE AO by JIMBO, Shigeru Visual Image, Hawaiian Culture and Music

The Beauty Of Mauna Kea

by Keola Beamer

 

   He lei keakea noho mai lā i ka mauna

   Ka mauna kiʻekiʻe i luna kū kilakila

   Kilakila no luna

   No luna i ke ao

 

My friend and I would sometimes roam

The trails of Mauna Kea

And in the evening we’d come home

And see her standing there

 

The moon moves around her when she sleeps

The clouds stand beside her when she weeps

And I could be forgotten and a thousand miles away

And still I would recall the beauty of Mauna Kea

 

   Now to any land you go

   She will be with you

   If you love her like I do

   ʻO Mauna Kea

 

And I live in the city now

And I see different things

In the nights when I’m alone

She is in my dreams

 

The wind spins all around her when she wakes

The sun spreads its warmth across her face

And I could be forgotten and a thousand miles away

And still I would recall the beauty of Mauna Kea

 

Of Mauna Kea

Of Mauna Kea

ザ・ビューティ・オブ・マウナ・ケア

対訳:神保 滋

 

 

 

<解説>

1972年にジャック・デ・メロのプロデュースでリリースされたケオラ・ビーマーのアルバム「Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar in the Real Old Style」に収録。このアルバムがケオラのソロデビューとなる。

ケオラのオリジナルで、ハワイのコンテンポラリーフォークソング。チャントから始まるのが印象的なナンバーだ。

 

ブラザーズ・カジメロがカヴァーしているが、I をwe に、my をour にするなど歌詞をところどころ変えている。以下、聞き取ってみた。

 

Our friends and we have often roamed the trails of Mauna Kea

And in the evening we’d come home to see her standing there

The moon moves all around her when she sleeps

The clouds stand beside her when she weeps

And I could be forgotten and a thousand miles away

And still I would recall the beauty of Mauna Kea

 

Now to any land you go she will be with you

If you love her like I do

‘O Mauna Kea

 

Now we live in the city and we see different things

In the nights when I’m so alone she is in my dreams

Because the wind spins all around her when she wakes

The sun spreads it’s warmth across her face

And we could be forgotten and a thousand miles away

And still I would recall the beauty of Mauna Kea

Of Mauna Kea, of Mauna Kea

 

And still I would recall the beauty of Mauna Kea

 

 

 

 

 

 

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